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Collector Henderson, A.
Number 535
Collected with  
Country Peru
Subpart Oxapampa
County  
Locality Dpto. Pasco, 10 km beyond Oxapampa on road to Paucartambo.
Coordinates    
Minimum elevation (m) 0
Maximum elevation (m) 0
Start date 1985/12/15
End date 1985/12/15
Family Arecaceae
Identification Dictyocaryum lamarckianum (Mart.)Wendl.
Determined by Balslev, H.
Identification qualifier  
Field notes Stem solitary, ca 6 m tall, 13 cm diam at base, 13 cm diam at apex, with slight bulge at middle, supported by a 1 m cone of branched stilt roots (stem not continous to ground on other specimens, and stilt roots "open"). Leaves 5; crownshaft 120 cm long, swollen at base, grey-green; 'petiole' 37 cm long; rachis 250 cm long. Inflorescence at or near pistillate anthesis, rachillae and Flowers white-cream Common name 'basanco'. Wood used in construction, like Socratea, i. e. stems split

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